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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Rhetoric -- Religious aspects"”.
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Utilizing biblical persuasion techniques in preaching without being manipulative
This dissertation examines the difference between persuasion and manipulation in preaching. The focus of this work will be demonstrating the need for the pure motives of the messenger. Additionally, discovering and exhibiting the pathos of Scripture emerges as an essential ingredient of powerful …
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The impact of contemporary narrative homiletics on interpreting and preaching the Bible
This dissertation examines the impact of contemporary narrative homiletics on interpretation and preaching. Chapter 1 provides the groundwork for the study by laying out the thesis and methodology to be followed. Chapter 2 defines hermeneutics and homiletics from a traditional, historical …
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Expository preaching as a means to fulfill Paul's admonitions in the pastoral epistles to confront and correct false teaching
This dissertation argues that expository preaching can serve as a means to fulfill Paul's admonitions in the Pastoral Epistles to confront and correct false teaching. Chapter 1 defines the thesis and methodology of the dissertation. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of specific texts in the Pastoral …
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Integrating doctrine and expository preaching: A proposal and an analysis for the twenty-first century
This dissertation proposes and analyzes the integration of doctrine and expository preaching for the twenty-first century. Chapter 1 traces the recent history of doctrinal preaching and expository preaching. Problems related to postmodernism, the New Homiletic, and the changes within contemporary …
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Factors in expository preaching that influence attention, comprehension and retention levels
The gathered data in this research provides pastors, Christian educators, and other educators with a better understanding of multi-sensory teaching and advanced multi-sensory teaching and their influence on the cognitive domain. Specifically, this experiment seeks to determine if the use of …
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Unruly brides of Christ: virtuous transgression and interruption as ethos in religious women's rhetoric
This thesis explores how three religious women rhetors – St. Catherine of Siena, Sarah Grimke, and Mary Daly – rhetorically navigated and ultimately subverted the stringent ethical codes and gendered expectations imposed on “virtuous women” by crafting an ethos of interruption. Aristotelian ethos, …